Evolutionary dynamics on multi-dimensional fitness landscapes [Elektronische Ressource] / submitted by Chaitanya Sanjay Gokhale

Evolutionary dynamics onmulti-dimensional tness landscapesDissertationin ful lment of the requirements for the degreeDoctor rerum naturaliumof the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,at Kiel UniversitySubmitted byChaitanya Sanjay GokhaleResearch Group for Evolutionary TheoryMax Planck Institute forry BiologyPrinted: Pl on, January 2011First referee - Dr. Arne TraulsenSecond referee - Prof. Dr. Hinrich SchulenburgthDate of oral examination: 28 of March 2011Approved for publication:Signed:iiFor my parents.iiiContentsKurzfassung vAbstract vi1 Introduction 11.1 Evolution of Evolutionary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Scope of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 Thesis Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Speed of evolution 132.1 Pace of evolution across tness valleys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.2 Fitter but slower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Evolutionary Game Theory 373.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373.2 Evolutionarily Stable Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423.3ry Game Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 Evolution in the multiverse 644.1 Evolutionary games in the multiverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644.2 The assumption of \small" mutation rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.3 Mutation selection equilibrium in evolutionary games. . . . . . . 914.